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Remember Marijuana POWs This Holiday Season

As the holiday season gets into full swing, I am again reminded to count my blessings. One of the most precious blessings is my freedom. I can go where I want, eat what I want, watch what I want and so on. We all need to be aware of that freedom, because many of our peers have lost theirs. The Ã¢â‚¬Å“War on Drugs has created victims, casualties and POWs, in ever increasing numbers.

I spent part of my Sunday looking for interesting articles to mail Roger. He has limited access to information, or even the law library, and needless to say a lot of time on his hands. I try to mail him an envelope weekly, so that he has something to look forward to at Ã¢â‚¬Å“mail call.

IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve sent letters of support to two other heroes of the reform movement, Marc Emery and Rev Eddy Lepp.

Taking a few minutes out of our day to write a letter is easy, and so beneficial to those POWs. Share a photo, or a story about your life. Something, anything to help break up the monotony of the day.

There is a web site which has information about other people in jail for medical cannabis related crimes.

Matt Rifkin, born and raised in New York City, and 20-year resident of Tokyo, Japan moved to the Big Island in 2003 to escape the concrete jungles and neon lights. Became interested in cannabis reform when seeing the vast difference between US and Canadian media coverage of the murder of four RCMPs in 2005. Became personally interested in solving the inter-island transportation issue after being threatened with arrest at Kona airport on Christmas Day 2007.
Although living in Puna, Matt lives “on the grid” and while not vegan or vegetarian tries to eat non-GMO papaya and organic fruits as often as possible.

Prohibition of cannabis is the most destructive policy since Slavery. Scientist can’t evenlegitimately
research it with out DEA approval
which is never granted even the State
of North Dakota has been given the
run around for years and still today
has not been granted to grow Hemp
(cannabis) which is grown across the
border in Manitoba and then ship to
Think if over the last 74 years we spent the trillion plus building Hospital and training Doctor and such instead of prisons and cops. Its a wonder why the Bushes are so heavily invested in prison concessions.ÃƒÂ¯»¿

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knowa

Prohibition of cannabis is the most
destructive policy since Slavery.
Scientist can’t even legitimately
research it with out DEA approval
which is never granted even the State
of North Dakota has been given the
run around for years and still today
has not been granted to grow Hemp
(cannabis) which is grown across the
border in Manitoba and then ship to
Think if over the last 74 years we spent the trillion plus building Hospital and training Doctor and such instead of prisons and cops. Its a wonder why the bushes are so heavily invested in prison concessions.ÃƒÂ¯»¿ I have worked inÃƒÂ¯»¿ a few, none of use that worked there would ever eat the food even my dogs would turn there nose. We have 5% 0f the world population and 25% of the world prisoners

Matt, mahalo for keeping the victims of the cannabis wars alive during the season. We will continue the work for their release and to change the laws so this will never ever have to happen again.

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david bourgeois

You Americans have a Canadian Cannabis activist in a Georgia prison.
His name is Marc Emery and he ran to be premier of British Columbia which would be like running for governor of a state in America.
He was extradited to the U.S. because they claim he sold seeds though the mail to U.S. citizens.
We would like him back in Canada.
Please send books to this facility and try to swamp them with mail which contains large amounts of reading material.
I don’t think it’s illegal to try to educate people in a state that’s obviously, like your whole country, in dire need of an education.
When Americans say, routinely and without question, “alcohol and drugs” , it betrays the fact that the majority of Americans aren’t even aware that alcohol is a drug in every sense of the word and therefore requires neither separate mention nor separate treatment by the legal system.
The fact that the two most damaging drugs, alcohol and tobacco, are legal is proof that the majority of Americans are undereducated and misguided about drugs.
Instead of profiting from cannabis and saving your tanking economy, your country spends your money imprisoning foreign pot-heads. Wow! Unbelievable how your fundamentalist Christian whack-jobs have screwed up your legal system. Be aware that, in Canada, there’s a lot of pity for Americans.
Trapped in that punishment-happy system of yours … so sad!
Here in British Columbia , anybody can buy the best dope in the world anytime they want and without the fear of insane life sentences in overcrowded hellholes in the deep South (Canadians think “Deliverance” when they think of the American south).
So send books (especially Spanish) to this location:

Even if you don’t like what I said about your sick country (not you personally dear reader), you should still send a box of books to Georgia.
Please send books and magazines (especially Spanish ones because racist America has a high proportion of Hispanics in prison)to the above address.
Overgrow the government!

I just sent Roger a card Saturday, so I’ll write to these other P.O.W’s tomorrow. Thanks for all you do for the cause.

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Hokulani

Much Aloha to you and Matt and mahalo nui loa. We ALL need to keep this issue in front of everyone’s face daily. I, too, am always thinking of Roger and the other political prisoners and believe me, I have no spirit or desire to celebrate Christmas with this kind of tyranny going on. I pray fervently for a high profile attorney to take this case on.

Well Done Matt! Sometime it is so easy for us to forget what others are going thru and how blessed we are! God Bless Everyone this Holiday Season!
Clifford J Perry
President
Cannabis Business University

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Thomas

Awesome post Matt.

I posted it to face book and put the link up on the HTH Roger Christie comment section.